Healthy Breakfast Cookies

Kat_in_AridZona
Kat_in_AridZona @cook_2861538
Mesa, Arizona

I had read Cooking for Geeks, and it was discussing the way to make alterations to recipes, substituting ingredients, and wanted to make oatmeal cookies even healthier, primarily by reducing the sugar. The is was the result of several incremental changes to the basic recipe.

Healthy Breakfast Cookies

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Kat_in_AridZona
Kat_in_AridZona @cook_2861538
Mesa, Arizona

I had read Cooking for Geeks, and it was discussing the way to make alterations to recipes, substituting ingredients, and wanted to make oatmeal cookies even healthier, primarily by reducing the sugar. The is was the result of several incremental changes to the basic recipe.
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Ingredients

10 mins
60 servings
  1. first, mix together.
  2. 1 cupOrganic Blue Agave Nectar
  3. 1 cupBrown Sugar
  4. 1 cupButter, softened
  5. 1 cupUnsweetened Applesauce
  6. 2 tspBaking Soda
  7. 1 tbspGround Cinnamon
  8. 1 tbspVanilla Extract
  9. 1 tspBaking Powder
  10. 1 tspSea Salt, finely ground
  11. 4Eggs, large
  12. 6 1/2 cupSix-grain cereal (like old-fashioned Oats) uncooked
  13. 2 1/4 cupFlour, all-purpose or Whole Wheat
  14. 2 cupraisins, nuts or dark chocolate chips
  15. 1/2 cupflaxseed meal, optional

Cooking Instructions

10 mins
  1. 1

    Mix first nine ingredients together well

  2. 2

    Add in eggs, one at a time, until mixed in well.

  3. 3

    Add in Six-grain cereal, 2 cups at a time and mix well.

  4. 4

    mix in flour and any optional ingredients and finish mixing

  5. 5

    cover and refrigerate for 10 - 20 minutes.

  6. 6

    Preheat oven to 375°F.

  7. 7

    Place Parchment onto a cookie sheet (or lightly spray with Olive oil)

  8. 8

    Drop by spoonful onto cookie sheet, spaced apart by about 1/2 inch or so and lightly mashed down.

  9. 9

    Bake for 9 - 11 minutes, until golden brown. Makes about 5 dozen cookies.
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